Lorne

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

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  • **NEW
  • YORK
  • TIMES
  • BESTSELLER
  • The
  • definitive
  • biography
  • of
  • Lorne
  • Michaels,
  • the
  • man
  • behind
  • America’s
  • most
  • beloved
  • comedy
  • show“The
  • kind
  • of
  • biographical
  • monument
  • usually
  • consecrated
  • to
  • founding
  • fathers,
  • canonical
  • authors
  • and
  • world-historical
  • scientific
  • geniuses.”—The
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • (Editors’
  • Choice)“Readers
  • are
  • treated
  • to
  • the
  • Holy
  • Grail
  • for
  • any
  • journalist
  • hoping
  • to
  • crack
  • the
  • show:
  • a
  • warts-and-all
  • week
  • in
  • the
  • life
  • of
  • SNL,
  • where
  • Morrison
  • gets
  • to
  • see
  • the
  • real
  • process
  • of
  • putting
  • the
  • thing
  • together.”—Variety**Over
  • the
  • fifty
  • years
  • that
  • Lorne
  • Michaels
  • has
  • been
  • at
  • the
  • helm
  • of
  • Saturday
  • Night
  • Live,
  • he
  • has
  • become
  • a
  • revered
  • and
  • inimitable
  • presence
  • in
  • the
  • entertainment
  • world.
  • He’s
  • a
  • tastemaker,
  • a
  • mogul,
  • a
  • withholding
  • father
  • figure,
  • a
  • genius
  • spotter
  • of
  • talent,
  • a
  • shrewd
  • businessman,
  • a
  • name-dropper,
  • a
  • raconteur,
  • the
  • inspiration
  • for
  • Dr.
  • Evil,
  • the
  • winner
  • of
  • more
  • than
  • a
  • hundred
  • Emmys—and,
  • essentially,
  • a
  • mystery.
  • Generations
  • of
  • writers
  • and
  • performers
  • have
  • spent
  • their
  • lives
  • trying
  • to
  • figure
  • him
  • out,
  • by
  • turns
  • demonizing
  • and
  • lionizing
  • him.
  • He’s
  • “Obi-Wan
  • Kenobi”
  • (Tracy
  • Morgan),
  • the
  • “great
  • and
  • powerful
  • Oz”
  • (Kate
  • McKinnon),
  • “some
  • kind
  • of
  • very
  • distant,
  • strange
  • comedy
  • god”
  • (Bob
  • Odenkirk).Lorne
  • will
  • introduce
  • you
  • to
  • him,
  • in
  • full,
  • for
  • the
  • first
  • time.
  • With
  • unprecedented
  • access
  • to
  • Michaels
  • and
  • the
  • entire
  • SNL
  • apparatus,
  • Susan
  • Morrison
  • takes
  • readers
  • behind
  • the
  • curtain
  • for
  • the
  • lively,
  • up-and-down,
  • definitive
  • story
  • of
  • how
  • Michaels
  • created
  • and
  • maintained
  • the
  • institution
  • that
  • changed
  • comedy
  • forever.Drawn
  • from
  • hundreds
  • of
  • interviews—with
  • Michaels,
  • his
  • friends,
  • and
  • SNL’s
  • iconic
  • stars
  • and
  • writers,
  • from
  • Will
  • Ferrell
  • to
  • Tina
  • Fey
  • to
  • John
  • Mulaney
  • to
  • Chris
  • Rock
  • to
  • Dan
  • Aykroyd—Lorne
  • is
  • a
  • deeply
  • reported,
  • wildly
  • entertaining
  • account
  • of
  • a
  • man
  • singularly
  • obsessed
  • with
  • the
  • show
  • that
  • would
  • define
  • his
  • life
  • and
  • have
  • a
  • profound
  • impact
  • on
  • American culture.
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